Wednesday, November 16, 2011

What Should Be the Purpose of School?

It started as a question in class. Listening to discussions of
actions schools should and should not take, I started to want to know
what ideas were inspiring what sounded to be firmly held beliefs in the
role of school.

That got me thinking about what people outside our classroom believe should be the purpose of school. My suspicion is that these ideas are
not as synchronous as we might believe them to be. I mentioned this to
my friend Trevor. From there, the School Purpose Project was born.

They'll start working with the data right after Thanksgiving, so try to get your responses in before that. Please note that all answers will be made public. I can't wait to read/see/hear what you think.

2 comments:

I added my ideas to the Google Form. I was pondering this about a year ago while reading Seth Godin's book "linchpin." I wrote a (very) brief blog post summarize my ideas here: http://electriceducator.blogspot.com/2011/03/what-they-should-teach-in-school.html